4.5 stars So I’ve already raved at you here AND here about why you should be reading this comic. If you haven’t read it yet (what is wrong with you, do you not like awesome things?), this trade is not the place to start. It collects issues 19-24 of an ongoing story. I’m going to try really hard to review it without spoiling anything major, but tread with caution if you’re not caught up. Marko and Alanna and their hunted little family are laying low […]
Big, mutant, junkie moths
I’ve been trying to pin down what’s got me so obsessed with China Mieville. His characters are often unlikeable. Really bad things happen. A happy ending is not guaranteed. He gets a little hung up on his favorite vocab words and uses them to death. This book was 700 pages and it took a while to get into. And yet…I can’t wait to read the next one. The scope of his creativity is amazing. The atmosphere in his books is like a physical thing. It […]
I don’t think I have ever read a really good YA sci-fi book. Do they even exist?
Ugh. I hate being disappointed in books. This one almost totally missed the mark for me. It was aggressively okay, and the coolest bits I’ve seen done better elsewhere. I knew going in this might be an off book for me, but if anything I anticipated it being more like the last book was: a fun sci-fi romance romp about starcrossed lovers in an alien environment. Well, actually, turns out that was exactly what I got, because everything about this book is echoed from the […]
Time-travel for dummies. That’s probably mean but I don’t care.
A couple of years ago, I pounded the Goodreads pavement pretty hard searching for pretty much any time-travel book I could find to add to my ever-growing to-read list (a list which has, to my horror, since surpassed 1,500 books–for every book I periodically cull, ten more pop up in its place). The Accidental Time Machine was one of the books I found. I’d heard of Joe Haldeman because his Forever War series is a classic of the miliatary sci-fi genre, although I have yet to […]
The Start of the Finish
Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger’s first installment of her YA series set in the universe of the Parasol Protectorate, is an absolute delight. The events take place before Soulless, and can be thoroughly enjoyed without having read the other series. I read Soulless a few years ago, and am ashamed to admit that I don’t remember much, just the basics that werewolves and vampires are out in society, and that vampires are fabulous (which is not the main point of the book, but certain things […]
The Trouble with Poet is How Do You Know It’s Deceased…
Lucifer’s Hammer – Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven – 1977 When I saw this on a used bookstore shelf, I recalled I hadn’t read it since the seventies. Something about a comet hitting Earth and the struggles of the survivors in California trying to save civilization. Feeling the need for a hard dose of pure science fiction and inspired by the recent news of the European Space Agency’s spacecraft landing on a passing comet, I bought a copy to reread and was surprised how timely […]
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